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“Earth Stanzas” Intergenerational Poetry and Song Circle for Solstice!

Upcoming June 21, 2020 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST

DESCRIPTION: This special Earth Institute Sustain What webcast is an inter-generational series of readings, reflections and musical performances examining humanity’s turbulent, wondrous, fast-forward planet.

Earth Stanzas is a project of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and the Center for Earth Ethics at the Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University.

Scheduled guests include Karenna Gore, the founder and director of the Center for Earth Ethics;

David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center and Charlie Malone, the Center’s outreach manager (both are poets as well);

Jane Hirshfield, founder of Poets for Science

and poets Sony Ton-Aime, Rachel Marco-Havens, Elizabeth Shvarts, Andrei Codrescu, Rafael Jesús González and Fatou M’Baye, youth author of model poem “Thank You, Tree.”

Live Musicians are Reggie Harris and Magpie.

The event is hosted by Andy Revkin, the founding director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability.

Join us LIVE!